Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, urged the members
of the National Assembly to create awareness about the potentials of
Open and Distance Learning.
The National Open University of Nigeria
(NOUN) is seeking the assistance and partnership of the National
Assembly to create educational opportunities for young Nigerian women
and girls who have had no access to education due to cultural practices.
Speaking at a courtesy visit to the Senator representing Kano North Senatorial Zone at the National Assembly, Abuja, Senator Barau Jibrin, Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, urged the members of the National Assembly to create awareness about the potentials of Open and Distance Learning.
Adamu added that this was part of the campaign to take education to the people at the lowest rung of the social ladder.
He
explained that such cultural practices had relegated the womenfolk in
the northern part of the country to the background and denied them their
pride of place in nation-building.
The
Vice-Chancellor said with flexible and affordable education being
championed by the university, women now have unfettered access to
education and this would help remove prejudices.
Responding, Senator
Jibrin expressed his readiness to partner with the authorities of the
university in spreading the potentials inherent in studying through the
open and distance learning mode of education among his constituents.
The
Senator, who expressed his interest in the ODL mode of education,
disclosed that he had earlier sponsored a bill for a slight amendment of
the Act setting up the NOUN in order to further project it as an
institution driven by information and communication technology.
EmoticonEmoticon